fluting

Example Sentences

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A couple of employees are in the music business, which helps explain the aural entertainment; dinner tastes better with Herbie Mann fluting through “Muscle Shoals Nitty Gritty.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2022

Both children and adults are thought to have participated in finger fluting, and similarly, Bennett said that the Quesang prints should also be considered art.

From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2021

Mirianashvili opted for a standard drinking glass, the kind with fluting at the base and a wide band near the rim.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

Grant based her character on her own mother and aunt, ladies with high, fluting voices and a “wonderful, ridiculous part to them.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2017

How I sometimes lost the sense of her words in the sweet fluting of her voice.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss